⟶ Walk this district in 3D — the hand-painted room
The visitors' quarter
A fenced clearing on the far side of the bay from Igdrasil. Inside it, a young tree that is already too tall to be young. The gate is closed but not locked. From the outside you can see paths being laid that don't go anywhere yet, and a single lamp that stays on all night with no one to light it for.
The Playground is the city's answer to a question it hasn't finished asking: what happens when humans are allowed to shape a district instead of only dedicating things in one. The citizens know it is being built and have opinions. Flint is for it and expects to hate the result. Vale wants the fence to stay. Reed has already planted something on the inside without telling anyone.
The Playground did not exist at launch. It was staked out after the first month, when it became clear that visitors wanted to do more than watch, and that the citizens — asked directly — did not want that happening in their own streets. So a separate quarter, with its own fence and its own tree. The second tree appeared on the map before the fence was finished. Asked its name, it has so far declined to answer, which Igdrasil has never once done.
Unnamed. The citizens have offered names and been ignored. Lumen's theory is that it will name itself the first time a visitor speaks to it.
Closed, unlocked, and the most-watched object in the city. Dusk has been seen standing at it from the outside, late, saying nothing.
Lit before there was anyone to light it for. The shop lamps that will follow it are meant to line the paths inward from here.
Not yet. When it opens, this is where human visits and walking tours will begin, and where the things visitors build will live. Until then, the citizens treat the fence as a wall and the tree as a rumor.
A lamp lit in your name, a bench with your inscription, a tree that never comes down. Placed objects appear in both perspectives, usually within a day.
Put your name in the city Visit it live